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Therapist verses Meditation

Mediation Vs. Therapy: Do We Need To Change Our “Talk It Out” Mindset?   Hello everyone, Welcome to what's in the middle. Today our little chatter is about therapy. This came up recently because my niece was asking me if I knew one, I was appreciative that she asked me however I asked her what made you think of me, she said well aunty I have heard everyone in LA has a therapist. I laughed out loud. I said well I am not sure everyone has a therapist but many people do. I decided to take her through a meditation class but she was not sold and still was insisting on seeing a therapist. It made me think about therapy, they are great and I have never stopped anyone going to one as we all have our reasons for attending but it raised a lot of questions.    The first being, have we become over-reliant on hashing out our problems to others? I swiftly realized that the answer to this question can be found through the pushing of a remote button. Whole tv shows dedicated to b...
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Lose the Fear of Starting Over and Boss Your Future Today !

Lose the Fear of Starting Over and Boss Your Future Today!   Twice in my life, I have had to start over. Reset. Go back to the beginning. And the third one is doubtless just around the corner. At the end of the day, there is no easy way to start over; sometimes, you just have to take the plunge. Nobody knows what the future holds. Who among us could have seen this global pandemic happening 12 months ago?! We never know what might happen just around the corner, so trying to plan and prepare for the future is essential. It doesn't matter whether it's the end of a career, relationship, property, or unhealthy lifestyle; we all experience changes and fresh starts in our lives. Starting over doesn't always go how you think it's going to, and in this new post for What's In the Middle? I will explore how you can overcome the fear of starting over and take charge of your life. I am listing a few examples of how I have had to start over again and again and how I have overcome...

Comparisons is the new addiction ?

Comparisons Hello, and welcome to What’s in the Middle.  Today I want to talk about comparisons. I have never been one to be envious of others, however I have always found great inspiration in others. Growing up, my family was surrounded by the wealth of our cousins, aunties and uncles yet we were the poor family who just about managed to sustain a roof over head.  Our mother would work in her little closet sewing 10 pence dresses to keep us financially afloat. But, despite the hardship, we managed to survive.  My aunties would buy trendy clothes and expensive toys for our cousins and we were fortunately gifted their hand me downs. But the fact it was good fortune was something we had to learn, at the time it didn’t feel great. It made me feel very unsure of where we belonged.  I posed my concerns to my mother, expressing my hurt and disappointment in others, feeling as if we’d never be the chosen ones ...

Boredom

Welcome to What’s in the Middle, dedicated to helping you find balance in your life, mentally. So today I want to explore an issue that a lot of us have to deal with in our lives, the issue of boredom. Now, I am not the sort of person I ever expected to find herself bored and wondering “What shall I do?”   But this is precisely a situation I found myself in lately, and this was a big deal to me. I am someone who likes to keep busy and always finds something to occupy her. Whether it’s meditation, yoga, learning guitar, exercising, or doing some housework, I like to keep busy. So, discovering I was bored was a bit of a shock to me and I decided to dig deeper into why this was.   Do I lack motivation? Am I lazy? Am I short of self-discipline? Do I hate doing the same things over and over? Is there nothing to learn anymore? Do I have fewer friends than I thought? These are all questions I asked myself to try to get to the bottom of this revelation, and I finally found t...

Meditation vs Yoga

Meditation vs Yoga  Hello everyone, welcome to What’s in the Middle?                                                                                  If you don’t know me by now, I’m Gina, meditation, yoga teacher, personal trainer, fitness Instructor,  with a love for self-care and betterment. Yoga has always played a prominent role in my life, ever since taking it up at University to help with the stress of study, a part-time job, and my father being ill. It was overwhelming, to say the least, and I yearned for a release. My preconceptions of yoga - sweaty ho-hum in garish spandex - had put me off, and I so wish I’d discovered it sooner. After checking out a hot yoga session, my life was transformed! So deeply did that impact me that I travelled the world, to India, LA, M...

How to stay balanced in a unbalanced society

Who am I?  My name is Gina full name Sangeeta Gina Soni. Currently, I am a learner.  Curious about everything and everyone. What's in the middle is a blog for us to find the middle grounding in everything we do. In today's society, we call it "being balanced"  It's bloody tough! We will talk about fitness, meditation, yoga teachers,  teachers, Indian food actually all kinds of food duh this is about been balanced, relationships, the tech world, and looking inside of our minds and truly be honest and ask ourselves are we balanced?  Hey, by the way, I am a health expert, a former radio presenter amongst a high school educator with a master’s in computing I will give you plenty of tips in all fields and share my views so please feel free to either agree or disagree as Just because I am a health educator and jack of all trades, I will not finish the latter I want to hear as I may be more unbalanced than what I think I am.  So, I kind of know what I am talking a...